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“Think of it as an evolution. In the early days of the Web, there were bulletin boards like Usenet. Then, during the boom, Web sites like Geocities, which gave people the ability to create communities of templated personal Web pages. Post-Internet bubble, Web logs offered “bloggers” more customizable personal Web journals and the ability […]

OhmyNews International has a good interview with Dan Gillmor about his new project: "I hope to pull together something useful that helps enable — and demonstrates — the emerging grassroots journalism that I wrote about in my recent book (We the Media, 2004). Something powerful is happening, it’s in the early stages and I have […]

Interesting apps that help list, share and borrow goals for next year. It leverage similar features as other user-generated content sites such as del.icio.us (bookmark sharing) and Flickr (photo sharing), and the user interface is brilliantly simple. It is not very developped, but there is potential to use the platform to build a social place […]

With wikipedia, firefox, and blogs / open source in general a trend is growing on: amateurs that are as knowledgeable as professionals and that are willing to share their knowledge/brains for free. This is the Pro-Am revolution, and goes far beyond journalism or programming. The term appears to have been coined by Demos, an independent […]

In the same vain, as wikinews, last week, France’s Le Monde became the first major newspaper to offer its readers the opportunity to create and contribute blogs. It’s the first real acknowledgement by "big traditional media" that readers are looking to find and share their own voice and want to read content created from a […]

Good Independent’s article on Nick Denton.
Extract: “The formula behind the Gawker empire, Denton says, is simple: “The one common theme is to take an obsession, say a gadget obsession, and feed it - produce more content than the people could ever dream of having or consuming.”

After doing much in recent years to revolutionize the way an encyclopedia can be built and maintained, the team behind Wikipedia is attempting to apply its collaborative information-gathering model to journalism. They have just launched Wikinews, albeit in demo version so far. The news site follows a similar set of rules as the encyclopedia, which […]